“形而上”的身体——陶身体剧场的身体美学探析

Investigation of Body Aesthetics in Tao Dance Theater

陶身体剧场是国内近年来体制外舞蹈团体中较为活跃的一支,形成了国内独树一帜的现代舞审美风格。"身体"和"形而上"在很多传统哲学理论中是对立存在的,但是陶身体剧场却剑走偏锋,用不加修饰的纯肢体动作将作品带上了形而上的意味。陶身体剧场创作的"数位系列"作品是该团从建团以来一以贯之的作品线,从《重之三部曲》到《9》,它们代表了时间与成长。"数位系列"作品是陶身体剧场的"名片",通过对它们的分析能够揭示陶冶的舞蹈观。"数位系列"的所有作品在形式上是较为接近和相似的,通过对它们的分析,也能够探析出陶冶对于舞蹈作品的表达观念,更深层地挖掘出从"肉身"走向"业身"的创作路径。

Tao Dance Theater is one of the most popular dance groups in China. Principal dancer Tao Ye, Duan Ni and Wang Hao have their unique ideas about modern dance and form a special aesthetic style. After several world tours in recent years, Tao Dance Theater becomes well known and especially receives recognition and appraise in Europe. They were invited for Y-3 brand presentation and arose a lot of attention in dance field. This paper narrates and analyzes its artistic style, and tries to explain its composition and popularity from aesthetic perspective. Body and metaphysical stand are sometimes in conflict in philosophical theories, but Tao Dance Theater trickily combine those two.